WINE-GROWING IN WAIKATO.
Our Hamilton correspondent writes :—A new industry, that of wine making from colonial-grown fruit, is springing up in Waikato, where the grape ripens freely in the open air. Something like 1000 gallons of wine will have been made this year by a few persons in Hamilton and the immediate neighbourhood. The Bill of Sir George Grey, to give wine makers the privilege of distilling spirits from their refuse and unsaleable fruit, to enable them more cheaply to fortify these wines up to the legal strength of 20 per cent, of alcohol, will be a great boon, and is nothing more than is permitted in America, while the Australian vignerons are allowed to get rectified spirits of wine for this purpose free out of bond. Sir George Groy e proposal to allow them to distil pure spirits for this purpose from fruit will be far more conducive to the value of their vintages.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9084, 19 June 1888, Page 5
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